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tonight washington sense troops to jordan to protect its border with syria a move seen by many as an escalation of america's involvement in the conflict we've got the latest for you also a member of punk band pussy riot freedom probation but an appeal hearing keeps the other two behind bars over their publicized stunt in russia's main orthodox cathedral. and the ongoing austerity fuels more separatism calls in europe as the referendum on scotland's independence from britain is all but confirmed.
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hello this is r t live news from moscow at nine pm here with me kevin zero in very good to have you with us this hour now we're first of all covering the developments in the middle east today the u.s. defense secretary has confirmed that washington sent troops to the jordan syria border in what's seen as america's growing involvement in the conflict then panetta says the task team is there to enhance jordan's capabilities in case violence spills over from syria he's going to teach accounts got the latest from washington . according to defense secretary leon panetta they sent the troops to jordan syrian border in case violence escalates in syria and spills over the border leon panetta did not go into details as to how many troops and so on but another u.s. defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said the forces are made up of one hundred military personnel and other personnel who stayed on in jordan after
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attending an annual exercise in may and several dozen more have flown in since they're operating from the joint u.s. jordanian military center north of that americans have used for years and then use about u.s. military personnel so close to syria that is boots on the ground of course is just an escalation in the military involvement in the conflict even as washington which is cracked on any suggestion of a direct intervention in syria but jordan is not the only place where the u.s. has military presence if we look at syria and the u.s. military presence in the region we see that syria is pretty much surrounded militarily also tension is growing on the border between syria and turkey after several days of shelling this wednesday turkey's military chief vowed to respond with more force that is a day after nato said it suit ready to defend turkey but this latest development with u.s. troops in jordan comes with the u.s.
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election presidential election less than a month away at a time when mitt romney his challenger is criticizing the president for not being aggressive enough for quote unquote sitting on the sidelines for missing the opportunity to topple assad and quote believe or that. yes he actually said that so it's not clear whether this latest announcement about jordan is the administration's way of showing teeth in these in this election campaign or sure whether an intervention in syria is really coming soon one of the reasons why the rebels refuse to settle for a. negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an infant tension but everybody understands without a negotiating so although she did you feel the bloodshed will continue so the signal that the rebels are getting including the news about u.s. troops standing by across the border could be making it that much harder to come to
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that negotiated solution going to take our correspondent in washington d.c. let's get more than on the growing u.s. presence near the syrian border and get the thoughts of political. views in beirut mr shelby thanks for being with us is stationing american troops on the syrian jordanian border just as a precaution like washington says we should we expect any real action from them any time soon do you think. well that's the big question is this a transition is this a first move towards the wrecked involvement of the of the u.s. army in syria at the top of the regime. i don't have a definite answer to that i cannot say we can speculate but what we can say i think logically is that this is not helpful to reach a cease fire in syria and take the different parties the fighting parties into a dialogue and this is much needed in syria today you know the conflict has been going on now for a couple of years they are tens of thousands of people were killed hundreds of thousands. millions more than
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a million people have been displaced and in the city and what syria noon today is an immediate cease fire and for the fighting parties to come on a round table to discuss the future of the country now this this deployment of american troops is definitely not helping as your commentator your analyst from from washington just just explained because the rabbit out of that i believe it and so are counting on an external intervention and this would make them have higher hopes so therefore they will refuse all calls for dialogue and this comes also as your correspondent said this comes at you know during this correlates with the rising tension on the northern border with turkey they have been exchanges of fire on the border and this puts more pressure i think this is this is also really interesting to put all these facts together one on one would realize that there is more american pressure and more western pressure in syria because the western powers came to realize that the. militant rebels they're supporting with their
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allies inside syria top of their regimes have not been so far successful and they haven't been able to control not even the. aleppo saw how about you know their attempts to control damascus these have all failed at a high cost but they have failed washington repeatedly stressed isn't that it won't get involved militarily in syria but it does beg the question how does the deployment of over one hundred troops near the border match president obama's earlier intentions let me put it another way are you at all surprised by the move by america today. well i'm not surprised because i mean this deployment comes within the framework of the american policy in the region yes perhaps there are some opinions that would say there would not be military involvement anyway one hundred troops are not sufficient for this kind of interference but more important than the size and the number is the history of where the americans are very well that they don't want to get into another iraq so. there was
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a devastating and i think that the devastating results of the iraq campaign led to the defeat of you know it contributed to this shift in policies in the united states and you know and has tremendous effect on the on the american elections i don't think anyone would want another direct military involvement but you know involvement can take shape in other ways and forms i mean you know there have been reports recently published on. intelligence services on smuggling weapons on encouraging the other oil rich countries to send in. to pay to cover for the expenses of smuggling weapons and also to pay for syrian officers in order for them to actually split from the syrian army and form different different groups fighting groups to fight against. this all comes at a very high cost for syria and the city of people their country is falling apart
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the country is burning down several parts of the country are already devastated and winter is coming and you know with a year more than a million internally displaced persons living in tents this is going to be a disastrous humanitarian situation and the united states by actually fueling more . and more attention into the conflict. to be has partially responsible of the devastating humanitarian conditions that are coming after thank you for being on the program political analyst live from beirut. now not all countries in the middle east are happy about america's plans to weigh into seemly protect the region from the syrian spillover iraq's prime minister who's currently here in moscow spoken out against a potential nato intervention in syria or using it to try and overthrow president to sat on his paper all of his been following nuri al maliki's talks with the russian president both president putin and prime minister maliki share very similar
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views concerning the ongoing crisis in syria both the mainly opposed to any kind of outside military intervention in the country and both want to see peace talks about to get to a much it means all the delegations been in town for a few days and the purpose of this mission is to strengthen ties between moscow and baghdad one of the ways in which they've done not is the signing of a multi-billion dollar defense deal which will see russia for vied arms to iraq now one of the reasons which iraq is turning towards russia for its defense needs is in the wake of comments from senior u.s. politician john terry who said that the united states should cease all arms deals with iraq now this comes after baghdad refused to intercept a rainy and cargo plane that was carrying military supplies to syria to aid the syrian army there so it seems that back that turning to moscow in the future for its military it is all its defense needs peter all of
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a lot of the day's big news stories now for your moscow appeals courts friedel one of the jailed members of the tourists pussy riot punk band but upheld the two year sentence for the two others the three were convicted in august of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for performing a song packed with obscenity and russia's main orthodox cathedral. has got the details from outside the court. what are the bands members you could see in this some would say that she walked free from. she was released on probation throughout the trial and throughout the appeal the women have maintained that they didn't mean to offend anybody and that there was a protest it was a political protest against. however during the trial the court found no political motive to the stunt that took place back in february in the christ the savior. they said it was in fact. motivated by religious hatred now today speculation has been
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mounting over a growing rift among the pussy riot clan because. this one band members switched defense teams. a media frenzy one that breaks out any pussy riot court hearing the same old faces a supporters and critics gathered for the herring after emerging from her successful appeal everyone wanted a piece of the one band member released on probation but some would say that she remained tight lipped even when you lawyers to do the talking. about the storm i'm very happy that i managed to help a person but i just did my job. last week so now freed band member fired her original legal team her new defense change strategy arguing in court that their client didn't take part in the now notorious punk prayer in most cases maine orthodox cathedral she was in fact chewed out by gods before she got the chance to
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join her bandmates in the so-called protest ought to argument was accepted by the court some trial observers believe that the strategy of the original pussy riot defense team wasn't to reduce the women sentences but rather to expose flaws in russia's judicial system for all the world to see by switching to lawyers that focused on her personal case some. walked out of court free today while her fellow band members went back to jail some would say rich i think she decided to get some real lawyers the won't be fighting in order to humiliate russia in the face of the west but to actually free her one major russian concert organizers says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot world tour that could earn up to six hundred million euros western and russian celebrities have called for the women's release and international considers
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them prisoners of conscience free pussy riot t. shirts are all the rage it was quite normal that's the way you attract attention. they always look that famous pop stars around the world look at the way but always dressed look at that they'll look at all the others. we can do as well as that or we can do something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and singing their blasphemous songs because that. would in fact be something reduce with the media circus in full swing and the requests pouring in brand percy riot isn't set to go away any time soon polly boyko r t moscow investigative journalist tony goes league says the resulting popularity and vandalism in the wake of the band's trial raises the big question of who really benefited from the sentence. let's not forget what else is going on around the world around this case because you have got loads of problems at the in a way you know part of the punishment is to stop these people cashing in on the
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free publish to the you know this publish the stunt there's been two prizes awarded to these people one from the lennon oh no fun which is a prize for peace which i find incredible since this has been such a divisive case the other is the luther prize which has been awarded by the city of wittenberg which is where protestantism started and what's happened is the city has awarded the prize for the people of the city and they are protesting against that saying you know we don't actually endorse this sacrilege i think there's something really a bit sad about a band an organization that defines itself by the opposition to the church and it's quite clear through this court case that's what this is about we've even had the disintegration of orthodox crosses across eastern europe in different parts of eastern europe in support of pussy riot so this is actually about i think an attack on the cathedral an attack on the church. well to push the case closely all the details. coming up later in the program tonight more belt tightening for
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beleaguered british prime minister david cameron tells his party to keep up the cuts despite public rage across europe plus. russia needs one trillion dollars of investments in the energy sector in less than a decade but how do you reach such an ambitious goal find out more on this and other stories or not so you have to show. the stunning beauty of reindeer gracefully dancing across the arctic tundra more than just a scenic image it is a way of life for some traditionally the nets people are nomadic reindeer herders and though in many ways they lead a simple and rustic life they are also highly skilled and organized in their trade . show. another week and will be preparing for the winter and living around more and more every spring to several is depending on the past is on the day we found
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this particularly camp they were settled near the coast of the ta to see here for families work together to manage nearly a thousand reindeer herding reindeer is not just a job for the people in fact they say it's a part of their entire culture heritage and way of life and back they say that they can use almost every single part of the reindeer to help them survive. the deer is a means of transportation it's a maryland our equipment and clothes and with the outside and inside of us intense . but life in the tundra is harsh and so before winter hits many of the children are helicoptered to the center of the district and not even marked for boarding school. in the minute students learn different languages utilize modern technologies through specialized grant programs and even learn arts skills all within a part. acted environment the school was founded and named for anton pity atika and
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then it's scientist who wanted a better way of life for his people but even with the most progressive ideas and education many say they don't want to trade the modern life for their beloved. i have returned to the tundra and i actually like it here if you're outside there's fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see here it's a joyful sight. a sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come. to music secret laboratory to kirby was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about
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humans in the world this is why you should care only on the r.-g. dot com. live from moscow this is r.t. now as if british prime minister david cameron didn't have enough to do tackling
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recession and spending cuts knows how to watch his back to london mayor boris johnson is capturing the public on his party's minds even overshadowing his beleaguered leader at the conservatives conference outies laura smith reports from . he's still got this great blond hair which he referred to that david cameron has made a joke of he said if he was a mob then david cameron was the broom sweeping out the economy and some have said in fact that cameron was very generous to agree to the closing speech of boris's annual conference and of course one of the things that people are looking for now from david cameron is this star quality but dave is not and his speech couldn't have really been in sharp contrast to boris is he still says that cuts are at the heart of his growth policy which is cutting the deficit we all hold working people who travel long distances to get into work and pay their taxes meant to think when
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they see families individual families getting forty fifty sixty thousand pounds of housing benefit to live in homes with these hard working people could never afford them so it is an outrage and we are ending it by capping housing benefit he defended the economic strategy but of course we all know the arguments and what's really lacking is any really real evidence that it's actually working that he didn't say the word austerity one and that's something i've seen was hanging around on the fringes of this conference over the last couple of days conservatives don't like the word austerity anymore they use these euphemisms they say tough decisions they say reducing the deficit they say reducing the government share of spending it's not fashionable to say the word austerity very uncomfortable with it so it's strategy not hugely coherent which is very important if cameron wants to gain this reputation is has in the past for huge compton's something he didn't mention which i have to say i wasn't really expecting was scotland of course we've had recently
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that the stalemate bruce in between london and imbra on as a holding a referendum on its participation in the u.k. david cameron will meet with premier alex salmond's on monday to hash out the details but what we're hearing is that there will be a referendum held in autumn two thousand and fourteen a simple yes no question as to whether scotland will remain part of the u.k. and of course the major thing that david cameron does not want is to be the man who is in charge over the breakup of the you kate. and smith member of the european parliament for the scottish national party says scotland doesn't get what it puts into the u.k. it's not working for the people of scotland and we could do better resenting ourselves a small prosperous northern europe we're surrounded by the likes of norway are going to do it mark and others so we think we could do better in a country of five and a half million people with a much more direct democracy is going to part of this deliberate it's done well what we want to do is to complete the process and give a normal course of
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a normal independent state with the you do your own independent scope isn't more to the u.k. and we get by the u.k. pleasing to the e.u. than we could but this is something that really has been proven by official u.k. treasury statistics he was no question scotland will do better economically independent. bringing real currency from the lord of the rings world online we got details of today's exchange rate for the commemorative middle earth coins now in circulation in new zealand instant read online plus a very unexpected arrival as a baby's born on board a russian passenger jet at thirty three thousand feet. back down to worth with a budget to meet he's got the business now so russia needs an immense amount of investment in energy one trillion dollars we're talking about yeah it's not like they need it tomorrow it's over the course of eight years till twenty twenty according to the russian energy minister alexander novak well he says that
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basically tax incentives will be provided in order to achieve this indeed ambitious goal. first of all we've created a set of stimulating measures to boost the development of new oil deposits in siberia secondly for the existence of posits that are unprofitable under the current tax system we've cut the export tax by five percent on top of that we will take steps to stimulate drilling of hard to reach oil reserves on the shelves. all right let's quickly take a look at what's happening on the markets in the u.s. it's all going down by the hour that's on the back of industry giants like alcoa and chevron downgrading their earnings forecasts but apple is one of the few stocks which is gaining right now on the nasdaq as it's expecting the i pad mini to be released in the next week and over in russia this is the closing bell we've also had a negative session that's the spiked price is going back up to around ninety two dollars per barrel so this is all i have time for this i'll be back next hour with yet
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else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to. big picture. oh. i'm going. to keep.
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it. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday october ninth two thousand and twelve the i.m.f. lowers growth forecasts offering its bleakest assessment of global growth prospects since the two thousand and nine recession and raising the risk of recession according to the wall street journal but is the i.m.f. already late to the party and it upgraded only one major nation versus its previous forecast the u.s. based on what we are in a q e induced coma we'll talk to mike shylock about all this and the calculus behind jobs numbers plus angela merkel is in athens she reportedly offered words of support for her greek counterpart while that's easy consuming pretty cheap but it's
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a far more expensive bailout countries the conditions of bailouts and debt write downs words of support don't pay the bills or reignite a stalled economy will discuss and look at where the mainstream media has gone this thing all wrong plus iran faces hyperinflation or does it we'll talk about the economic impact of sanctions price controls and whether it's better to lose purchasing power quickly and noticeably rather than slowly but surely you know what i'm talking about who i'm talking about let's get to today's capital account.
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the u.s. jobs numbers were released friday from the bureau of labor statistics which typically i think it's fair to say gets one solid day of play in the news cycle but not this time because the unemployment rate dipped to seven point eight percent and some high profile folks such as former g.e. c.e.o. jack welch suggested obama's team manipulated the data to give the president a boost well our guest is here to dispel conspiracy theories around the drop which is not to say the jobs numbers are manipulated but rather that they're manipulated on an ongoing basis one argue our economist argued in past have times look at this the unemployment rate has been low only because government programs especially social security disability have effectively been buying people off the unemployment rolls and reclassifying them as not in the labor force in other words the government has cooked the books thus far back in two thousand and three austin bowles be writing you may know him he went on to be an obama aide.

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